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Australia's Shame: We're very proud to have worked with Caro Meldrum-Hanna and the 4 Corners team on this exposé of child abuse within Northern Territory juvenile detention.…
During cross-examination by Peter O’Brien, Vice-Chief Ray Griggs talked openly about the ADF’s failure to protect victims of child sexual abuse. Griggs’ comments came on the…
Take a group, and split it into two. Each half is asked to comment on a case. The first group gets their information about the case…
A few sentences is not enough to communicate the full horror of Ken McIlwain’s experience, so instead we will give a mechanical retelling of his story.…
The best way to talk about justice during an election is not at all. The event that prompts me to write this is Trump’s atrocious attack…
New South Wales has never had full individual freedom – full freedom doesn’t exist anywhere, in any society. The trick of governance has always been to…
I’m going to roll out some statistics and make some correlations – stop me if you’ve heard them before. Nationally, the number of prisoners is on…
Last Thursday, Peter O'Brien assisted the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse during the questioning of Cardinal George Pell. Peter’s examination was remarkable for…
The NSW police’s system of roadside drug testing (RDT) is a poorly justified encroachment on the freedoms of the individual. Similar to random breath testing, RDTs randomly…
With further counter-terrorism arrests carried out in Sydney this morning, I expect the same tired tensions bubble to the surface. Hiding behind the thin rhetoric of…
I’ve said this too many times: when the criminal justice system is forced to kow-tow to the rants of the media, bad decisions ensue. Victim's mother…
Where to begin with the Northern Territory’s paperless arrest laws? The systemic racism and the incursion of individual liberty I will get to later. First, however,…
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